Description: Health care cost trends are a key ingredient that health care actuaries use in their practice. In collaboration with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), the Society of Actuaries has put together a data extract for practicing health actuaries to be able to better understand historical trends and cost disruptors.

Description: The Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries unanimously approved a proposal from the Nontraditional Marketing NTM Section Council to change the name of the section to the Marketing and Distribution MAD Section. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: This article discusses the role that actuaries can play in health care mergers and acquisitions.

Description: Chairperson's Corner from News Direct, May 2005, Issue No. 50.

Description: This article discusses the differences between insurance direct marketers and actuaries and the similarities on which they can build.

Description: Chairperson's Column from News Direct, January 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This is a Washington Post article in which the reporter, Caroline E. Mayer, quotes actuary Amy Pahl about long-term care needs.

Description: The author points out how being an enterprise risk manager can give an actuary a broader view of the direct marketing business. The actuary should not just be managing marketing risk, but many other risks of the business.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues related to the more direct involvement of actuaries on the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: The Actuarial Society of Turkey (AST) is a professional association which was established on May 25, 1951. The mission of the Actuarial Society of Turkey is to serve the public and Turkish actuarial profession. Primary purposes of the AST are to contribute to the development of actuarial science, to increase the professional knowledge of members, to protect the professional interests of them and their clients and to ensure solidarity among them. The Actuarial Society of Turkey is a full member of International Actuarial Association (IAA) and Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE).